Solvi vs. DigiFabster: When You Need More Than a Quote Button

DigiFabster is a solid instant-quote tool. If what you want is a widget on your site where customers upload a CAD file and get a price, it does that, and it does it well. The question worth asking before you commit to it is whether quoting is the only problem you’re trying to solve — because that’s where DigiFabster’s scope ends and where a lot of shops outgrow it.

Two complaints show up consistently from DigiFabster users. The pricing engine can drift out of line with your real costs unless you keep tuning it, and the price of the tool itself is steep for a smaller shop that’s only getting the quoting piece.

But the real limitation is structural. DigiFabster prices the job. It doesn’t run the job. The moment a quote turns into an order, you’re tracking production, scheduling, and capacity in some other system — usually a spreadsheet or a second piece of software that doesn’t talk to the first.

That’s the gap Solvi is built around. Three things, one platform:

Quoting you tune to your own processes and materials, so the number reflects what the work actually costs you.

An MES that runs the production side DigiFabster doesn’t touch — so quote and shop floor live in the same place instead of two systems you’re constantly reconciling.

And the piece no quoting tool has: a job board that routes other bureaus’ overflow work to you. DigiFabster helps you price the work that comes in. Solvi also helps you bring more of it in when your machines have room.

JawsTec is the example we point to they went from 24-hour quote turnaround to under five minutes, lifted conversions 35%, and used overflow jobs to push capacity utilization up 50%.

So the honest split is this: if you only need a quote button, DigiFabster is fine. If you need to quote, run production, and fill idle capacity without chasing new customers, that’s a different tool — and that’s the one Solvi is trying to be.

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